Supreme court demands details on Israel's Guantanamo (Not Cuba)

Israeli government given 45 days to justify heavy secrecy surrounding prison believed to hold high-risk Palestinian, Arab prisoners.


JERUSALEM - The supreme court on Monday demanded the government explain why it refuses to divulge the location of a secret prison the local press has dubbed "Israels Guantanamo Bay," court sources said.

The court gave the government 45 days to justify the heavy secrecy surrounding the prison known only as Facility 1391 and believed to hold "high-risk" Palestinian and Arab prisoners, the sources said.

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Its location has never been made public, no one knows how many inmates are being held there, nor their nationalities nor identities. Nor is anyone allowed, including the Red Cross, to inspect its conditions.

The press has dubbed it "Israel's Guantanamo Bay" after the US naval base in Cuba where Washington has controversially detained hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban captives in its "war on terror."


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scroll thru lbn , there is a story today about the upcoming

release of detainees being related to the SC accepting this case or

cases . The Admin.* appears to be worried because they have

imprisoned and tortured many innocent folks who were basically

sold to the US mil. for 'rewards' offered for the capture of

'foreign fighters' in Afg. Seems many foreigners were kidnapped

and the US paid for them no questions asked.